Crime review 2013: Glendale police experience a unique year

Cadillac on roof in Glendale

Raul Roa / Staff Photographer

A car is removed by crane from the roof of a home on the 400 block of Audraine Dr. in Glendale on Saturday, March 23, 2013. The driver told police he lost his brakes. The car went onto a neighbor's lawn and launched off onto the roof of the lower house down the street.

A car is removed by crane from the roof of a home on the 400 block of Audraine Dr. in Glendale on Saturday, March 23, 2013. The driver told police he lost his brakes. The car went onto a neighbor's lawn and launched off onto the roof of the lower house down the street. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)

Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com

Though all years have their share of oddness, 2013 seemed bit more fruitful than most in the Jewel City. From rockers fleeing through the streets, to cremains being stolen from a minivan, to a Cadillac landing on a roof, Glendale’s strange side kept its finest more than a little busy.

The urn contained ashes of the family's matriarch, 87-year-old Burbank resident Lois LaRocco, who died Aug. 28 due to complications from Alzheimer's. She was cremated and her ashes were placed in an 8-inch-by-11-inch round navy blue leather urn.

Her dog, “Huckleberry,” was also taken away from Clift and given to a relative.

Police said Clift used a 10-inch blade to stab Huckleberry around its eyes Dec. 28 inside her apartment in the 100 block of Carr Drive, police said.

A neighbor told police Clift was banging on her apartment door and begging residents to kill her, according to Glendale police.

When police arrived, they noticed a trail of blood to Clift's apartment. Then the small brown dog stumbled up a set of stairs and stopped in front of the officers, who noticed several deep cuts on its face.

There they allegedly found a bloodied kitchen knife with a 10-inch blade and blood throughout the apartment.

Clift allegedly told officers that she had slept only two hours that night when she woke up and began stabbing her dog in the face with the knife.